Back in the 1960s, it was a common joke that ronald reagan would never be President because no one would vote for a guy who co-starred with a monkey.

Today's GOP would ignore reagan and run the monkey

I've become more and more aware of "Irony poisoning" in every facet of our culture, from movies to memes to every other human interaction.

Maybe because of social media influence, we're so scared that holding any kind of sincerity will reveal a vulnerability that will be ruthlessly attacked...

We must be ready to say "No I don't mean that seriously" and change our projection within a moment's notice when the culture winds change again.

It's so bad anymore that people now need to add "un-ironically" to explain that they genuinely feel anything at all...

... and sometimes that's said ironically.

Idiocracy is not an accurate depiction of what we have going on, and I'm tired of people saying that it is. Idiocracy was about a dumbing down of everyone because smart people did not breed.

However, people still had the best of intentions despite their limited brain capacity. They just didn't know how to actually fix the world.

And real life we have people actively denying climate change despite the obvious effects not out of idiocy, but because they are literally being paid to, and because it makes a decent wedge issue for political gain. There is an obvious motive there that can be explained by malice instead of stupidity, especially since the people trying to get this money in power are likely to die before the effects of climate change come into full circle.

An idiocracy, they actively want to fix the climate problems, they are just literally too stupid to use water instead of Gatorade for plants. Because everyone is taking a slogan more literally than actual evidence.

Another great comparison is Donald Trump and Camacho. Donald Trump ignored the existence of covid-19, downplayed the effects of it, and blamed the parts of it that could not be ignored on his predecessor. He also villainized Anthony fauci, the man who was trying to make covid-19 only last a couple of weeks, but because he was villanized so hard it became a global pandemic that lasted over a year.

Camacho was fully aware there was a problem, acknowledge the people who were suffering and the Direct effects of the problem, and put the smartest man in the world in charge of fixing the problem.

It is not an app comparison, because Society is not the way it is because it is stupid, but because it is actively being manipulated by malefactors and bad faith agents.

The planet is not being mismanaged nor is it dying because it's just time. It is being murdered for personal gain by people with names and addresses.

Gary Webb killed himself, Milton Cooper was a quack, and Julian Assange is a far-right wing tool.

If he had released everything he had rather than just what he had on his enemies I would respect him a bit more.

He was more like that Bond parody with Rowan Atkinson. Bumbling and fumbling while bragging and shagging.

“Tear down that bridge so my yacht can pass”

More like Lex Luthor